Houellebecq meets Schopenhauer: el gran iconoclasta de las letras francesas se cruza con el gran pesimista de la filosofía alemana.

Todo empezó en la década de los ochenta, cuando un Houellebecq veinteañero se topó por azar en una biblioteca parisina con un libro de aforismos de Schopenhauer y tuvo una revelación: descubrió en él a un alma gemela, un álter ego del pasado, un maestro. Descubrió a alguien que le hizo sentirse menos solo. Y esa admiración acabó desembocando en este libro, una suerte de diálogo entre dos personas separadas por el tiempo pero unidas por la fiereza del pensamiento; dos voces indómitas, a contracorriente, de un pesimismo lúcido e incómodo. Houellebecq elabora una perspicaz lectura de la obra del filósofo alemán que acaba funcionando como un juego de espejos. Y así, Houellebecq ilumina a Schopenhauer y Schopenhauer ilumina a Houellebecq.

Houellebecq meets Schopenhauer: el gran iconoclasta de las letras francesas se cruza con el gran pesimista de la filosofía alemana.

Artist Jed Martin emerges from a ten-year hiatus with good news. It has nothing to do with his broken boiler, the approach of another lamentably awkward Christmas dinner with his father or the memory of his doomed love affair with the beautiful Olga. It is that, for his new exhibition, he has secured the involvement of none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq.

The exhibition brings Jed new levels of global fame. But, his boiler is still broken, his ailing father flirts with oblivion and, worst of all, he is contacted by an inspector requiring his help in solving an unspeakable, atrocious and gruesome crime, involving none other than celebrated novelist Michel Houellebecq...

Shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2013.

The controversial, gripping novel from the bestselling, highly acclaimed author of ATOMISED and SEROTONIN.
'Essential reading for anyone concerned with the state of the contemporary world' DAILY MAIL

Who, among you, deserves eternal life?

Daniel is a highly successful stand-up comedian who has made a career out of playing outrageously on the prejudices of his public. But at the beginning of the twenty-first century, he has begun to detest laughter in particular and mankind in general. Despite this, Daniel is unable to stop himself believing in the possibility of love.

A thousand years on, war, drought and earthquakes have decimated the earth and Daniel24 lives alone in a secure compound - his only companion, a cloned dog named Fox. Outside, the remnants of the human race roam in packs, while Daniel24 attempts to decipher his predecessor's history. In a nightmarish vision of the implosion of the modern world, he, like his predecessor attempts to fathom the meaning of love, sex, suffering and regret.